These are the facts and figures that I have so far... anyone have anything to add or remove from it?
ECTOPIC
• Ectopic pregnancy affects 1 in 80 pregnancies in the UK.
• This means the pregnancy is developing outside the womb - most often in one of the Fallopian tubes. This condition is life-threatening for the mother and, with exceedingly rare exceptions, the pregnancy cannot survive.
• It results in at least 32,000 emergency admissions into hospital every three years.
• An average of five deaths per year is caused by this condition.
• This figure has not fallen in the past 20 years and the incidence of ectopic pregnancy is rising.
MISCARRIAGE
• More than one in five pregnancies ends in miscarriage - around a quarter of a million in the UK each year.
• 15% of all pregnancies ends in a miscarriage
• Most miscarriages happen in the first three months of pregnancy - but they can happen up to the 24th week. Pregnancy loss after 24 weeks is known as stillbirth.
• Any woman who is at risk of pregnancy is also at risk of miscarriage - it can happen to anyone.
• It is common for women who have miscarried to feel high levels of anxiety in a subsequent pregnancy.
• Most women never know what has caused them to miscarry. Investigations are generally limited to women who have had three or more miscarriages. Even after investigations, in many cases a specific cause is not found.
• Recent research amongst a sample of over 300 women who had experienced miscarriage showed:
• nearly half (45%) of them did not feel well informed about what was happening to them
• only 29% felt well cared for emotionally
• nearly four out of five (79%) received no aftercare
• Access to information and emotional support has been shown time and time again to help people cope with the experience of loss
• Even after several miscarriages, most women have a good chance of a successful pregnancy.
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Stillbirth
• The term stillbirth refers to death at, or before birth, of any baby who is more than twenty-four weeks.
• Data collected in 1999 for England and Wales by the Office For National Statistics found that there were 279 Sudden Infant Deaths (SID. The SID rate remained the same as in 1998 at 0.45 per 1,000 live births.
• During the period 1995-1999, SID was more prevalent amongst boys than girls. During that time, 60% of all SIDs occurred amongst boys, whilst boys accounted for 51% of all live births. 88% of all SIDs occurred in the postnatal period.
• There were 31% more SID in the three months of January to March than in July to September.
• SID rate was highest where children were born to mothers aged under 20 at time of birth.
• SID rate was lowest for babies born within marriage.
• The SID rate for babies born within a marriage where it was the mother's first birth was 64% lower than the overall SID rate.
Neonatal Death
• Neonatal death is the term for babies that die within four weeks of birth. In fact, most neonatal deaths happen within one week of the birth - in the UK this represents about 1 in 100 births.
• There is usually no single reason for stillbirth or neonatal death,
• There are perhaps several factors involved.
• The most common reasons are low birth-weight and congenital abnormalities.
• Sometimes the placenta fails towards the end of the pregnancy, or even during labour and sometimes the stress of birth is too great for the baby.
• Rarely, something goes tragically wrong during labour, resulting in the death of the baby.
• After the death of a baby, it is quite natural for parents to ask whether they "did anything wrong", whether they could have done something differently/better etc. However, the reality is that it is extremely unlikely that anything you did or didn't do would have avoided this outcome.
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